Henry Louis Gates Jr. Quotes

The luxury industry is being radically reshaped by technology-driven innovation.

At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

Innovation is the answer to most problems including energy.

What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress. Instead, I try to run faster. If Amazon knows you better than you know yourself, then the game is up.

Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation.

Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.

We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

I have high-tech tastes. If I had $100 million, I would spend it on research equipment rather than a yacht.

People in the high-tech sector are living with change every hour. They can get up in the morning and find themselves behind already.

News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new.

The world is facing a new networked, digital lifestyle, and we will ensure that Canon remains ahead of the game.

We're looking for people who are working on things that seem out of reach, uncomfortably difficult.

We live in a dynamic time, where the rate of change and the rate of innovation are very high. It’s not equal in all segments or sectors of the economy, but we are seeing a lot of innovation in certain sectors, and I expect that to continue.

The best people in this industry [technology] are the people who are trying to solve big problems.

The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world through technology, and I couldn't be more honored to have been chosen to lead the company.

In tech in particular, everyone is so serious all the time and has these grand visions.

In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.

We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.